Do you have Cedar County photographs you would like to share? We are looking for photographs
of Cedar County residents, events, or places. If you have photos of unidentified Cedar County residents, we will
also post those in hopes someone can identify them! Please contact me for details on submitting photographs.

To submit photographs, e-mail Carol Tramp,
Coordinator for Cedar County

Nohr Family BarnNewer View of Barn
Built in the 1920's; damaged in the 1930's by a tornado and repaired. Bands including the Lawrence Welk band played upstairs on the
barn's hardwood dance floor. The barn has a bench setting around it, basketball hoops, etc. Submitted by
Rod Nohr

Nohr Family Home & Standard Oil Station
This picture shows the house I grew up in. The right side (roof peak) is the old Standard Oil Station which is one of the reasons Aten stayed
on maps after the post office and Standard Station closed. Standard Oil maps showed Aten and were copied by most other map makers. The left side (roof peak)
is the old Aten Store. James Marsh started the store in the summer of 1881 after to big flood that destroyed Green Island, NE. My grandfather Henry Nohr
came to work for Marsh at the Marsh farm and store about 1894. Submitted by Rod Nohr

Parker Hotel & Henry Nohr Family Home
View looking north. This is the Henry Nohr family home where my father grew up. The house was the Parker Hotel in Aten and reportedly had some
materials salvaged from Green Island used in its construction. My great uncle John married Sadie Parker and they ran the hotel until moving to the
Kanarado, Kansas area to homestead about the turn of the 20th century. There they ran a hotel near the rail line through Kanarado, KS. This Aten house was
unused for years, deteriorated, and was torn down and removed in the early 2000's. Submitted by Rod Nohr

Coleridge Street SceneI believe this photo was taken ca. 1885, and the man in the buckboard may be my great-grandfather John R. Robinson. He came to the area working on the
railroad from St. Joseph MO to Yankton SD. Submitted by Quentin Robinson

Carmack/Patrick Barbershop, Coleridge NE, ca 1910.Opened by David Carmack
using proceeds from a land sale. He homesteaded a 40 acre tree claim of walnut trees halfway between Hartington and Coleridge (later the site of
a country school called "Happy Valley School" by the children) and purchased an adjacent 40 acre farm. All property was sold just prior to opening
this barbershop. Photo may be more accurately dated based on a sale deed. Front chair: co-owner Irving L. Patrick, b.9/9/1876; d.10/29/1936.
Middle chair: co-owner David Frank Carmack b.1/6/1865; d.9/17/1922. Back chair: believed to be Jessie Patrick b.2/12/1881; d.3/2/1935.
Submitted by Mike Dooley

Coleridge NE, ca. 1905-1910I believe this photo was taken ca. 1905-1910 based on both the Carmack-Patrick Barbershop and the Carmack
Restaurant/Hotel in the lower-right corner. A local historian may be able to date this from other buildings in the photo.
Submitted by Mike Dooley

Steam Tractor, ca. 1905This steam tractor was operated in Cedar County, NE by William Archibald Urquhart (seated on tractor; b.11/30/1876 Rockford, IL;
d.10/10/1956 Billings, MT) and his brother Peter James Urquhart (standing; b.12/25/1872 Rockford, IL; d.2/7/1960 Pierre, SD). The Urquhart
brothers threshed grain and husked corn in the area from 1900-1910; William also sold farm machinery and worked as a farm equipment mechanic.
William owned one of two cars in Coleridge; the other was owned by the town doctor. Their father owned the Urquhart Confectionary and
Tobacco Shop. Submitted by Mike Dooley